Racial segregation

Deadly shootings by homegrown Islamists have cast a light on France's "geographical, social and ethnic apartheid", Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Jan. 20 in one of the starkest indictments of French society by a government figure.
   

Voters in South Carolina elected the first African-American to the U.S. Senate from the South since the years immediately following the Civil War.

And in the western state of Utah, Mia Love became first black Republican woman elected to the House of Representatives.